Signature controversy: TMC’s Sovondeb releases meeting documents
According to the documents made public by Chattopadhyay, 67 MLAs attended the 6 May meeting at 30B Harish Chatterjee Street.
According to the documents made public by Chattopadhyay, 67 MLAs attended the 6 May meeting at 30B Harish Chatterjee Street.
The INDIA bloc suffered a mega setback after the assembly elections as two of its major political parties, the TMC and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), suffered electoral setbacks in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu respectively.
The Trinamul Congress (TMC) on Friday announced a major organisational overhaul at its national working committee meeting held at the party headquarters in Kalighat, appointing senior minister Chandrima Bhattacharya as the new president of the West Bengal Pradesh Trinamul Congress.
It's official now, the Trinamul Congress (TMC) party has split, with the majority of 59 out of 80 MLAs opting out of the party founded and led by Mamata Banerjee.
Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Wednesday likened the escalating turmoil within the Trinamul Congress to the political rebellion that split Maharashtra’s Shiv Sena, alleging that an “Eknath Shinde model” was unfolding in Bengal as a fraction of rebel legislators challenged the party leadership.
A group of demonstrators gathered outside the temple and showed black flags while raising “Go Back” slogans as Kumar arrived to offer prayers.
The meeting, led by Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, along with Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, was attended by the state’s Chief Electoral Officer and senior officials of the Commission.
Former Union Minister and Hamirpur MP Anurag Thakur on Sunday participated in the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Parivartan Yatra in West Bengal along with Union Minister Shantanu Thakur and other party leaders.
On International Women's Day, women Trinamool Congress leaders and workers staged a protest against the hike in cooking gas prices by sporting black sarees.
In a message shared on his WhatsApp channel after addressing a public meeting in the Sundarban organisational district, Banerjee said the large turnout and enthusiasm among attendees reinforced his confidence that people would reject what he described as the BJP’s “authoritarian” politics.
